Dan Herbert
@danherb10.bsky.social
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Prehistory. Normans. Recently Vikings. New Model Army. Asterix. Old Gods. Arsenal. Corinthian Casuals.
University Library Buildings Development Manager.
Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS.
#MDANT
Prehistory. Normans. Recently Vikings. New Model Army. Asterix. Old Gods. Arsenal. Corinthian Casuals.
University Library Buildings Development Manager.
Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS.
#MDANT
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The powerful portrait of a male deity from a floor excavated by Tessa Verney Wheeler at VERVLAMIVM (St Albans) in 1931 now in Verulamium Museum
The inclusion of red lobster claws makes it likely this is Oceanus 🦞
We love the use of single rounded tesserae for his pupils 😍
📷 Jan 2026 #MosaicMonday
The inclusion of red lobster claws makes it likely this is Oceanus 🦞
We love the use of single rounded tesserae for his pupils 😍
📷 Jan 2026 #MosaicMonday
January 19, 2026 at 8:14 AM
The powerful portrait of a male deity from a floor excavated by Tessa Verney Wheeler at VERVLAMIVM (St Albans) in 1931 now in Verulamium Museum
The inclusion of red lobster claws makes it likely this is Oceanus 🦞
We love the use of single rounded tesserae for his pupils 😍
📷 Jan 2026 #MosaicMonday
The inclusion of red lobster claws makes it likely this is Oceanus 🦞
We love the use of single rounded tesserae for his pupils 😍
📷 Jan 2026 #MosaicMonday
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You wouldn't be the first to see antlers and tbh it's likely the RB mosaicist was unfamiliar with the source material and wasn't sure what the red things were (but did them anyway knowing deer better than lobsters) but the original iconography for Oceanus / Neptune is clear they *ought* to be claws
January 19, 2026 at 10:13 AM
You wouldn't be the first to see antlers and tbh it's likely the RB mosaicist was unfamiliar with the source material and wasn't sure what the red things were (but did them anyway knowing deer better than lobsters) but the original iconography for Oceanus / Neptune is clear they *ought* to be claws
Current Status: Arrived at work only to remember I'm supposed to be WFH today
a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face .
ALT: a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face .
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January 19, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Current Status: Arrived at work only to remember I'm supposed to be WFH today
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Let's head to Scotland for #BlueMonday and discover 'The Blue Men of the Minch', beings from folklore who inhabit a stretch of water between the Outer Hebrides and mainland Scotland, looking for sailors to drown and stricken boats to sink.
January 19, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Let's head to Scotland for #BlueMonday and discover 'The Blue Men of the Minch', beings from folklore who inhabit a stretch of water between the Outer Hebrides and mainland Scotland, looking for sailors to drown and stricken boats to sink.
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Old North Church in Boston, MA 🇺🇲💪🏼
January 19, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Old North Church in Boston, MA 🇺🇲💪🏼
January 19, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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Late/early for #MosaicMonday, publication of the Low Ham villa, with its internationally important Dido and Aeneas mosaic (pictured in the thread). 🤩Open access🤩 Great news!
Our @antiquaries.bsky.social Low Ham book (myself, Roger Leech and @thepostexcox.bsky.social ) is now available OA - library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... - the first synthetic publication of one of Britannia's largest villas, with reports on strat, finds, & enviro remains, & fully contextualised. 1/10
January 15, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Late/early for #MosaicMonday, publication of the Low Ham villa, with its internationally important Dido and Aeneas mosaic (pictured in the thread). 🤩Open access🤩 Great news!
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A meander Mosaic in Attalos II's Palace in Pergamon. Dated to c. 150 BC. Photo by Jordan Wolfe, Furman University. #MosaicMonday
January 19, 2026 at 6:35 AM
A meander Mosaic in Attalos II's Palace in Pergamon. Dated to c. 150 BC. Photo by Jordan Wolfe, Furman University. #MosaicMonday
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Some Monday inspiration - the 14th century octagon tower at Ely Cathedral. As the height and width would not have supported a stone vault, the tower was constructed in wood following the collapse of the central Norman tower in 1322. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #ElyCathedral
January 19, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Some Monday inspiration - the 14th century octagon tower at Ely Cathedral. As the height and width would not have supported a stone vault, the tower was constructed in wood following the collapse of the central Norman tower in 1322. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #ElyCathedral
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(Ask yer ma and da)
January 18, 2026 at 10:31 PM
(Ask yer ma and da)
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A dry, tranquil Cissbury Ring this afternoon, the tree, the eastern entrance and my Dad on the edge of a mahoosive flint mine and another mine with clayey bottom. 🏺
January 18, 2026 at 6:32 PM
A dry, tranquil Cissbury Ring this afternoon, the tree, the eastern entrance and my Dad on the edge of a mahoosive flint mine and another mine with clayey bottom. 🏺
Faces from the past at Killeshin • Laois • 12th century
Some of the faces peering from the spectacular Hiberno-Romanesque doorway of Killeshin Church, County Laois.
Though we can not say for certain who the faces represent, they are most likely to be religious figures or wealthy patrons.
Some of the faces peering from the spectacular Hiberno-Romanesque doorway of Killeshin Church, County Laois.
Though we can not say for certain who the faces represent, they are most likely to be religious figures or wealthy patrons.
January 18, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Appearing through the mist.
January 18, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Appearing through the mist.
It wouldn't be a proper birthday without the visit to the stones.
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
January 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM
It wouldn't be a proper birthday without the visit to the stones.
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
Have you seen the new post box topper in Avebury @artefactual.bsky.social?
The green man has been replaced by aliens.
The green man has been replaced by aliens.
January 18, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Have you seen the new post box topper in Avebury @artefactual.bsky.social?
The green man has been replaced by aliens.
The green man has been replaced by aliens.
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For #StandingStoneSunday, here's the splendidly sinuous King Stone at Rollright in #Oxfordshire
Although folklore claims this is a petrified monarch, writhing in agony, the current form of the Bronze Age monolith is due to 19th century souvenir hunters who removed bits 😱
📷 Aug 2022
Although folklore claims this is a petrified monarch, writhing in agony, the current form of the Bronze Age monolith is due to 19th century souvenir hunters who removed bits 😱
📷 Aug 2022
January 18, 2026 at 8:30 AM
For #StandingStoneSunday, here's the splendidly sinuous King Stone at Rollright in #Oxfordshire
Although folklore claims this is a petrified monarch, writhing in agony, the current form of the Bronze Age monolith is due to 19th century souvenir hunters who removed bits 😱
📷 Aug 2022
Although folklore claims this is a petrified monarch, writhing in agony, the current form of the Bronze Age monolith is due to 19th century souvenir hunters who removed bits 😱
📷 Aug 2022
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The Long Neolithic is continuity with our fundamental nature. To step into a stone circles is to know we are pattern makers, season markers. It is a knowing we have always looked to sky, always had our rituals and mysteries of death. We are lithic. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
January 18, 2026 at 3:43 PM
The Long Neolithic is continuity with our fundamental nature. To step into a stone circles is to know we are pattern makers, season markers. It is a knowing we have always looked to sky, always had our rituals and mysteries of death. We are lithic. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
Someone has stolen Silbury Hill!
January 18, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Someone has stolen Silbury Hill!
Current Status: #StandingStoneSunday
January 18, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Current Status: #StandingStoneSunday
January 17, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Current Status: The Southgate. Devizes
January 17, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Current Status: The Southgate. Devizes
Did you have any trouble getting passed security @richardosgood.bsky.social?
Security on the door of The Wiltshire Museum are not to be messed with @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social
January 17, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Did you have any trouble getting passed security @richardosgood.bsky.social?
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Hopefully you all know how I love the mixture of archaeology and art. Today I visited the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social & saw the spellbinding collection of Rose Ferraby work. Of so many things precious to me - landscapes, sites, artefacts. One week left - go and see it! #archaeology #art #wiltshire
January 17, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Hopefully you all know how I love the mixture of archaeology and art. Today I visited the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social & saw the spellbinding collection of Rose Ferraby work. Of so many things precious to me - landscapes, sites, artefacts. One week left - go and see it! #archaeology #art #wiltshire
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A surviving section of the late 3rd c AD Roman wall of VERVLAMIVM, municipium of the Catuvellauni, looking out to the medieval abbey church and later catherdral of St Alban, martyred here in the early 4th
📷 Jan 2026 #Hertfordshire
#RomanSiteSaturday
📷 Jan 2026 #Hertfordshire
#RomanSiteSaturday
January 17, 2026 at 8:56 AM
A surviving section of the late 3rd c AD Roman wall of VERVLAMIVM, municipium of the Catuvellauni, looking out to the medieval abbey church and later catherdral of St Alban, martyred here in the early 4th
📷 Jan 2026 #Hertfordshire
#RomanSiteSaturday
📷 Jan 2026 #Hertfordshire
#RomanSiteSaturday